Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

It's called Bullseye Gives, a special Facebook page inviting folks to decide how they should allocate $3 million among ten large institutional charities, including: Parent Teacher Association Feeding America The Salvation Army American Red Cross National Parks Foundation Breast Cancer Research Foundation St.

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

Dan Pallotta is a titan of the charity event industry, creating campaigns such as the AIDS Rides and 3 Day Walk for Breast Cancer. But he says that the public perception of charities and how they should be run is keeping nonprofits from solving large-scale problems like hunger and poverty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Last December, I watched Twitter turn into a sea of frozen green peas to support Susan Reynolds in her fight against breast cancer and to raise money for research in her honor. How did you get first get interested/involved in using social media for social causes? Through Twitter, I became aware of your work with social causes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2008

Change.org is launching a social action blog network this summer and is currently hiring a team of blogger/editors to help create a movement for change around the major causes of our time. Want to create the premier online space for your issue and become a leading voice for social action? Positions are part-time and paid.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Instead, focus on the cause. Here are several ways to get indirect coverage of your organization: Pitch a story about your organization’s cause with your Executive Director as a source. A pitch is appropriate if you are suggesting a story about your organization’s cause, such as food insecurity or overpopulation of cats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The final stages is the bonfire or what Parr calls long attention or your audience’s long-term interest in an idea, product, message, cause, or whatever. Let’s look at one of these triggers that nonprofits and social good causes might leverage. It is based on reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts. October is also breast cancer awareness month, so why not make a donation ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. They not afraid to stand up for cause they are passionate about. Gen Z Uses Digital Tools for Social Good, Not Social Currency. They are not content to just sit and click.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2009

attending Mass Comm week at Texas State University and of course checked out the Social Media for Social Good panel presented by Kerri Qunell, VP of Communications at Capital Area Food Bank , David Neff, Director of Web, Film and Interactive at American Cancer Society , and Jordan Viator, Interactive Communications Manager at Convio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Whether it’s sharing a #CecilTheLion cartoon, or sharing a #PlannedParenthood petition, all of these actions are expressions of our passion for causes we love. Since GoFundMe is an open platform where people can solicit support for life events of any kind users have found plenty of uses for it – like supporting charitable causes.

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MAY 20, 2016

Hearing about a cause from a trusted friend or family member also creates an emotional affiliation for potential donors to your cause. Raising general awareness for your cause. Although you may feel that everybody will relate to your cause and want to support it, this is unfortunately not the case. Walk for Hunger.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

They have a hunger to make a connection – they have a hunger to make a connection with you. There are so many ways we can think to try and flirt with our donors, pass them the signs, have our friends go and talk to them, send them a secret valentine – but how do we finally get their attention so that we can romance them?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Back then, Dan was the chair of the Harvard Hunger Action Committee that led a 4,200 mile cross-country bike ride to fight hunger. Dan Pallotta would go on to invent the multi-day charitable event industry with the AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer 3-Days. And that is progress that is really needed right now.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 5, 2010

Here are some thoughts I took away, for anyone who wants to stack the deck against poverty & hunger, despair & disease. Got a good example of such forums serving as cause-related entertainment, though? There’s tremendous value in that companionship for sure.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. They are not afraid to stand up for cause they are passionate about. Gen Z Uses Digital Tools for Social Good, Not Social Currency. They are not content to just sit and click.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Constituent Empowerment Honorable Mention: Sierra Club and American Cancer Society Winner: Children International Used TeamRaiser to recruit new sponsors and recuited 5,000 sponsors since 2005 and sponsored over 560 children. Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos. Komen for the Cure race.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Take a look for ideas on how your nonprofit could empower supporters and advocates to fuel creative buzz around your cause. It’s about reminding them why they care and giving them an opportunity to join your cause. They may be causing a lot of controversy, but some nonprofits have found a silver lining.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Find them all at GivingTuesday.org 2-1-1 Tampa Bay Cares, Inc. The Trust for Public Land TransForm Transportation Alternatives United Nations Foundation United Way for Southeastern Michigan United Way of Genesee County Vermont Foodbank Volunteers of America Wade Edwards Foundation and Learning Lab Women Employed World Food Program USA YES!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Instead, Pepsi is using the money for lethal generosity through its Pepsi Refresh Project , a crowdsourced cause marketing effort to give away $20 million in grants to help revamp communities. . Pepsi is taking a bold move. It's not spending money on Super Bowl ads for Pepsi beverages. The top 100. Pepsi is taking a bold move.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. Previously served as CEO of The Seany Foundation, a pediatric cancer foundation. Helped co-found Oncology and Kids, Inc. Caryn York.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

And while a temporary ceasefire has allowed for increased aid delivery, easing the plight of those facing disease and hunger , experts predict malnutrition and health issues to persist for months or even years. And that was before another six months of bombing caused further damage to Gaza.

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